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Some of the Best Bards Were Women
In “Shakespeare’s Sisters,” the Renaissance scholar Ramie Targoff presents an astounding group of Elizabethan women of letters.
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Why a 1934 Concert Is Being Restaged at Juilliard
Harry T. Burleigh, who transformed Black spirituals into concert songs, presided over a landmark event that featured the singer who…
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Kremlin Warns Against NATO Ground Intervention in Ukraine
The warning came in response to comments by President Emmanuel Macron of France, who said “nothing should be ruled out”…
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Russian Court Jails Rights Advocate for ‘Discrediting’ the Military
Oleg Orlov, 70, a co-chairman of Memorial, which received the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, was given a two-and-a-half year sentence…
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A Doctor’s Lifelong Quest to Solve One of Pediatric Medicine’s Greatest Mysteries
For 40 years, Dr. Jane Burns has been working to find the cause of Kawasaki disease, an illness that can…
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Dancing on the Rooftops of New York in a Rediscovered Short Film
OpinionSupported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENTDancing on the Rooftops of New York in a Rediscovered Short Film Feb. 27, 2024, 5:00 a.m.…
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Pankaj Udhas, Bollywood Singer and Maestro of the Ghazal, Dies at 72
His soulful renditions of ghazals, or traditional love poems, were featured on the soundtracks of hit Bollywood movies and moved…
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Co-Chair of Harvard Antisemitism Task Force Resigns
Professor Raffaella Sadun’s departure from the task force is a setback for a group set up to propose ways for…
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Subway Cameras Led to Arrests in D Train Killing, Police Say
Investigators say that an early morning argument on a D train last week ended with the fatal shooting of William…
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Why the N.Y. Fire Dept. Canceled Its Black History Month Celebration
A documentary screening about the city’s first Black fire commissioner was scrapped after his family objected to the film’s exclusion…